Women are wonderful! Women are warriors! Women can do it all, and they do in the Broadway musical “Suffs.'
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This musical presents a side of history that some people may not be comfortable with, but it happened. I’m thrilled that Taub not only highlighted the exclusion that Black women felt, but also how they were treated when they attended marches or conventions for the National American Woman Suffrage Association . It’s important that people realize Black women like Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell were there.
Just as every number was a showstopper, this musical features an all-star cast who put everything on the line and made you feel every moment of the anger, cruelty, frustration, joy, and sisterhood that these women felt. Nikki M. James is superb as Ida B.
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